HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

Fighting wars in two countries, even if Russian authorities deny involvement in one of them has to be expensive, especially when it costs 84,00 rubles to buy a euro.

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During his visit to Crimea, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was confronted by frustrated pensioners, the Meduza news website reported on Tuesday.

“What is 8,000 rubles ($120)! It's misery,” said one woman.

Xerxes17 posted:

Which countries have taken on corruption and have managed to clear it out? What has worked and what has not?

Dwesa posted:

He is also an excellent ice hockey player https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/hockey/2017/05/10/vladimir-putin-keeps-scoring-goals-nhl/101518442/

Feminition posted:

https://twitter.com/MaximEristavi/status/1172449584087367687

Nitrox posted:

For anyone familiar with the situation in Russia, this hurts very much. Because it's much closer to the actual truth than the empty rhetoric

Nitrox posted:

Basically, when the oil prices feel, so did the Russian economy. Nobody in the government is working to improve the lives of average Russian citizen.

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He obviously misspoke, but the wording couldn't be better. "One of our main agendas is to curb the rise of income levels of citizens", is my rough translation. For anyone familiar with the situation in Russia, this hurts very much. Because it's much closer to the actual truth than the empty rhetoric

cinci zoo sniper posted:

All of this while their ability to save money has dropped to the level of 90s, and the share of regular spending funded by savings and loans has grown roughly 50% year-over-year for Q4 2017 to Q4 2018.

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OPEC and key ally Russia failed to agree Friday on a cut to oil production that would have contained the plunge in the price of crude caused by the new coronavirus outbreak’s massive disruption to world business.

The price of oil fell sharply in international markets as a result, with the international benchmark plunging 9.4%, down by a third since the start of the year.

While cheaper oil will translate into more affordable energy for consumers and businesses, it hurts producing countries and companies. Thousands of workers have already been laid off in the U.S. oil patch.

aphid_licker posted:

Man the range of emotions in that video is something.

Randarkman posted:

Or is it even more general "the Muslim hordes are coming to kill Christians"?

Randarkman posted:

As is extremely common for nearly all soldiers to be in armies that recruit via some system of mandatory military service. Them being conscripts isn't really something they have to hide.

French Canadian posted:

It's interesting. But I'm a dumb american and can't follow it all. Russian journos riding along with Azerbaijanis? And when they say "the enemy" they mean Armenians? When I think Russian journo I think RT and kinda glaze over. But this seems more just like some journo who happens to be from Russia yeah?

Brown Moses posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipAnwilMncI

Paladinus posted:

It at least shows that mismanagement of various governmental projects in Russia is not completely intentional, as they mismanage their personal projects as well.

Somaen posted:

In any case as one pundit on the Echo of Moscow put it, you don't build gaudy unmaintanable poo poo like that for anyone to live in, you build it to show who is on the top of the food chain and owns all the money

Vasukhani posted:

Putin today in one of his "public" q&as said it wasnt his palace, what was the direct evidence navalny presented that it was?

Cugel the Clever posted:

Good thread on the water crisis in Crimea:
https://twitter.com/MJ_Cruickshank/status/1357696266298421248?s=19

BigRoman posted:

build enough desalinization plants to make up for the deficit?

fatherboxx posted:

Love my extremely normal country and its extremely honest leadership with ~secret~ offsprings like its 1612

Continuity NIP posted:

He has to crash at his friends palaces, the poor guy

MiddleOne posted:

Nenonen posted:

Russian news agency RIA reports of a pretty air force accident at a military airfield near Kaluga involving a Tu-22M strategic bomber. Not a crash, which have happened in recent years. No, this sounds way worse, for some reason.

Vasukhani posted:

The NKVD still totally recieves respect in Russia, they have a very prominent day of the Chekist, and Putin embraces his KGB past.

Erulisse posted:

If someone is downplaying Chinese Uyghur concentration camps (they are concentration camps, china is seriously genociding a whole nation of people), they should be permaed.

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The official Russian coronavirus death toll of 102,649 as of Saturday — reported on state television and to the World Health Organization — is far lower, when adjusted for the population, than that of United States and most of Western Europe.

However, a far different story is told by the official statistics agency Rosstat, which tallies deaths from all causes. Russia saw a jump of 360,000 deaths above normal from last April through December, according to a Times analysis of historical data. Rosstat figures for January and February of this year show that the number is now well above 400,000.

In the United States, with more than twice the population of Russia, such “excess deaths” since the start of the pandemic have numbered about 574,000. By that measure, which many demographers see as the most accurate way to assess the virus’s overall toll, the pandemic killed about one in every 400 people in Russia, compared with one in every 600 in the United States.

Slashrat posted:

I don't know if this is the right place for cuba chat,

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Russia says it is banning eight top current and former US government officials from entering the country in response to US sanctions.

The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement those banned included FBI Director Christopher Wray, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

Others to face an entry ban include Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Michael Carvajal, Director of the Domestic Policy Council Susan Rice, former US national security advisor John Bolton and ex-CIA head Robert James Woolsey.

Necronormiecon posted:

Russians are building a "Stalin Center"

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Such efforts extend beyond Stalin. In Moscow, government prosecutors recently declared that the dismantling of a monument to Soviet intelligence chief Felix Dzerzhinsky was illegal. The statue had stood in front of the FSB’s headquarters on Lubyanka Square but was pulled down in 1991. Now, it may be resurrected in the place where it once stood.

GABA ghoul posted:

Troops need to happen through NATO. The EU has no troops. Also not sure what it's supposed to accomplish exactly. Are we pretending to threaten Belarus with an invasion? Are we demonstrating resolve against a possible Belorussian invasion of the EU?

Vasukhani posted:

https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/1397785157436940290

is this the D&D karabakh thread?

Zudgemud posted:

Well, they did have a water shortage before so it evens out over time!

OddObserver posted:

https://twitter.com/MID_RF/status/1438768364353114115

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8 people killed in shooting at Russian university
Moscow (CNN)At least eight people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a university in the Russian city of Perm on Monday, officials have said.
A suspect entered the Perm State University campus, some 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) east of Moscow, "with an offensive weapon" and began shooting on Monday morning, the university said on its Telegram channel.
Some students and teachers locked themselves into classrooms during the attack, the university's press service said, state media agency RIA Novosti reported.

Others were seen in footage captured by local media throwing their belongings out of first-floor windows before jumping down and running to safety.

Paladinus posted:

She was too principled.

Paladinus posted:

So now introducing literally any anti-covid measures that affect common people means losing face for Lukashenko personally, who called covid a hysteria and 'jokingly' claimed you can cure it by working in the field on a tractor. He doesn't care about anything else.

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Russia orders new lockdowns in Moscow as COVID deaths continue to climb
The Moscow city government has ordered people aged 60 and over to stay home for four months and told businesses to have at least 30 per cent of staff work from home amid a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths in Russia.....

Daily death tolls have been surging for weeks and topped 1,000 for the first time over the weekend amid sluggish vaccination rates, lax public attitudes toward taking precautions and the government's reluctance to toughen restrictions.

Russia boasted about becoming the first country in the world to authorise a coronavirus vaccine in August 2020 — even though it was only tested on a small scale — and proudly named the shot Sputnik V after the world's first satellite, to underline the country's scientific achievements.

While extolling Sputnik and three other domestic vaccines developed later, Russia's state-controlled media chafed at the perceived flaws of Western-made shots, a controversial message that many observers saw as feeding public doubts about vaccines.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

Oh look they'd go for Mariupol and odessa immediately

barbecue at the folks posted:

I really wonder if Die Grüne are gonna go for it and refuse to authorize opening Nord Stream II, it would be the kind of stuff that would make for some interesting foreign policy news in the near future

Vasukhani posted:

Clancy chat became a meaningless term when Russia invaded georgia a decade and a half ago ... a plot from a clancy book

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

I agree with you. But the language in some of these speeches implies the opposite. The example below is not related to this NATO statement

Conspiratiorist posted:

The current arrangement is dominated by Turkey. Azerbaijan and Turkey got everything they wanted, Russia's security client Armenia got absolutely punked, and the division Russia has sitting in Nag-Kar for peacekeeping has done nothing to stop the skirmishing.